The future of engineering belongs to those who build with AI, not without it
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Summary
Recent comments made by the CEO of Salesforce that artificial intelligence (AI) is responsible for a 30% increase in productivity among its engineers has led to fears that thousands of jobs will be lost to the technology.
However, it is more likely that as AI transforms the nature of engineering, those who fail to adapt to the evolving role of human workers within the industry are more in danger of being left behind.
Four ways in which AI is transforming engineering include summarisation, progressive optimisation, language conversion, and expansion.
New specialisms are being created, such as large language model operations which focuses on deploying, monitoring and optimising LLMs in production.
Effective AI governance, ethical considerations, regulatory compliance and risk management need to be in place for AI to be successful.